Proverbs 23:27 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Proverbs 23:19-28

Here is good advice for parents to give to their children; words are put into their mouths, that they may train them up in the way they should go. Here we have, I. An earnest call to young people to attend to the advice of their godly parents, not only to this that is here given, but to all other profitable instructions: ?Here, my son, and be wise, Prov. 23:19. This will be an evidence that thou art wise and a means to make thee wiser.? Wisdom, as faith, comes by hearing. And again (Prov.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:27

For a whore is a deep ditch ,.... Or, "as a deep ditch", so Aben Ezra; to which she may be compared for the filthiness of her whoredoms, and for her insatiable lust, as well as for her being never satisfied with what she receives from her lovers. Plautus compares F7 Truculaetus, Acts 2 . Sc. 7. v. 16,17. "Lucuculetum coenum", Bacchides, Acts 3 . Sc. 1. v. 11. "Lutea meretrix", Trucul. Acts 4 . Sc. 4. v. 1l. her to the sea, which devours whatever you give, and yet nothing... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 23:27

For a whore is a deep ditch - See on Proverbs 22:14 ; (note). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:26-28

A hexastich, in which Wisdom herself is the speaker, and warns against unchastity. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:26-28

The harlot's true character I. IT IS DANGEROUS AND PERNICIOUS . ( Proverbs 23:27 , Proverbs 23:28 .) It may be compared to a deep pit or to a narrow and deep well, out of which, if one falls therein, there is no easy escape. Or to a fell robber lying in wait for the unwary and the weak. II. THE TRUE RESOURCE OF SAFETY . This is in the heart given up to God ( Proverbs 23:26 ). If that heart be already polluted, he can wash it and make it clean. But he who... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Proverbs 23:27

The need of the emphatic injunction in Proverbs 23:26 is exemplified by the dangers of impurity. A deep ditch; as Proverbs 22:14 . A strange woman is a narrow pit. (For "strange woman," equivalent to "harlot," see on Proverbs 2:16 .) A narrow pit is one with a narrow month, from which, if one falls into it, it is difficult to extricate one's self. The verse indicates the seductive nature of the vice of unchastity: how easy it is to be led into it! how difficult to rise from it! Thus... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 23:27-28

Proverbs 23:27-28 . For a whore is a deep ditch In which a man is in evident danger of perdition, and out of which it is exceeding difficult to escape. See the note on Proverbs 22:14. She lieth in wait, &c. Watching all opportunities of insnaring young men to their destruction; and increaseth the transgressors among men She is the cause of innumerable sins against God, and against the souls and bodies of those whom she insnares, and by her arts and wicked example involves many... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Proverbs 23:1-35

Social-climbers and others (23:1-35)Those who seek status like to mix with the upper classes and try to copy their habits. But because of their ignorance of how to eat fine foods, they make fools of themselves and so spoil their chances of progressing up the social ladder. The food they desire becomes the means of their downfall (23:1-3). The desire for wealth can lead to disappointment (4-5), and the efforts to win the favour of others may win only their disfavour. This may particularly be the... read more

E.W. Bullinger